One often-overlooked aspect of a company's financial success is the quality of its accounting information systems. Roger Neckelius, IKEA's Chief Information Officer and other IKEA executives quickly realized that the company's myriad of antiquated accounting systems was inadequate for their short term goals of regulatory compliance and their long-term goals of a common, streamlined system that could be used across the IKEA world.
The IKEA Group is the group of companies within IKEA that handles the core elements of the business such as product research and development, production and distribution, and retail sales. The IKEA Group has a parent company called INGKA Holding B.V., which in turn is owned by the Stichting INGKA Foundation, established by the IKEA's founder Ingvar Kamprad. Because the Coda system was customizable, it allowed for a much easier conversion process for the variety of business units within IKEA.Martensson also took advantage of the system's flexibility to solicit input from end users across IKEA and tailor the system to their needs.
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Data conversion should be reviewed first, where you should pose such questions as conversion scope, budget, availability of the old system for data querying. Exporting data from your legacy accounting. Migration tools. ;If your legacy accounting was Great Plains Software associated, for example Small Business Financials, Great Plains Select on Pervasive SQL 2000 or Ctree, Great Plains on DOS, Windows or Mac – there are migration tools to consider. Data Massage. Now the preferred conversion tools. ;For custom conversions we recommend Integration Manager only, as this tool validates business logic and doesn't allow you to cause data compromise. ;We discourage you from feeding the data directly into the Great Plains system or company tables, where you are completely open to cause data compromise
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